Edward Lucas (journalist)

Lucas works for The Economist, the London-based global newsweekly. He was the Moscow bureau chief from 1998 to 2002, and thereafter the central and east European correspondent.[1] He has also been a correspondent for The Independent and the BBC. Lucas also writes occasionally for The Daily Mail.

Lucas has contributed to several books, including Why I am still an Anglican (Continuum 2006). Lucas's own book, The New Cold War, appeared in 2008. Newsweek stated that "Lucas has built a very strong case for the prosecution [of Vladimir Putin]. And, on all too many of the counts in his indictment, the defendant looks smugly guilty".[3]The Sunday Telegraph called it the best portrait to date of the mentality of Putin's ruling class.[4]

The Independent wrote: "His book's urgency is fueled by the belief that, while the Russian bear has been sharpening its claws, the West has slept. Our first mistake, he argues, is ever to have regarded Russia as "normal". Our second has been to take our eyes off the ball, so obsessed with the "war on terror" that we have failed to understand the implications of Kremlin policy and pronouncements, as personified by Vladimir Putin."[5] The book received praise from Vladimir Bukovsky, Mart Laar and Oleg Gordievsky, and criticism from John Laughland and Alexander Zaitchik.[6][7]

Lucas has condemned whistleblowerEdward Snowden, saying "If Snowden had approached me with these documents I would have marched him down to Bow Street police station and asked them to arrest him."[9] Lucas has written an e-book called ‘’The Snowden Operation: Inside the West’s Greatest Intelligence Disaster’’ detailing his own conspiracy theory that Snowden was working as a Russian spy.[10]